Does anyone have any patterns based on "Star Wars"? I found a few fairisle ones (stormtrooper helmet, R2-D2, ATST, ATAT--I'm sure a few of you have found the same ones), but nothing along the lines of an Imperial insignia. I'm not cool enough to design it myself at the moment.The Imperial insignia is really what I'm after, although I'd like to see more, if anyone had come up with any.

i havent seen any - not that ive looked- but making achart isn't too hard and you can get it any size you need. There are a few easy ways to make a chart from an image. You can get blank knitters graph paper (the squares aren't square they're adjusted so that they are wider than they are high - just like knitting stitches). If you have a paper copy of you image you could print the grph on to a transparency and then just fill it hte squares with markers. Or do it on the computer using a paint program with the graph paper as a layer. I guess that requires some knowledge of the program. i also saw someone else on here who had the idea of using the picture as background in excell and filling in the fields with colours - you would have to adgust the proportions of the spreadsheet first. hope that helps if you decide to make your own chart. Otherwise try ebay or thrift stores for old pattern books - try from the early eighties - you might find some kids sweaters or something

Hmm, not sure why, but I just made up the intarsia charts for the rebel and imperial insignias, they're available as a pdf hereHere's what I did:1) googled 'star wars imperial logo' and found images2) used image as background in excel worksheet3) set cell sizes to be the right proportion for knit stitches4) colored cells over background images

If I havent' already said it before (and I know that I have ), Melidomi is my hero! Now I know that to make for my husband for our anniversary . . . he buys me a Burberry bag, I knit him an Imperial hat. Win, win situation.

I was having trouble figuring out how to cubize the Imperial logo--it's so round and spokey. Yay you!!It's for my husband, too. I was thinking a scarf, with a TIE Interceptor on one end and the Imperial logo on the other. I've never done intarsia before though (I'm about to start the Skully Sweater in "SnB"), so they might end up on the sleeves of a sweater, depending on how intarsia looks on the back. Oh, duh, or double over on the scarf, like I did for the Harry Potter one I made. I look forward to getting started (when the WIP pile thins out a bit, hehe).

Yeah, colorwork is typically not too pretty on the back. I think I would double it over - or how about this: you could make one of those scarves with pockets on the ends, and have the intarsia bits on the pockets.

Oh, by the way, when I made the charts up for both symbols, I did the left half (by filling in) and then I mirrored it for the right half. I originally tried just drawing over for the whole thing, but it didn't end up symmetric (possibly because the grid wasn't perfectly centered over the picture?) , and it looked wierd. I also made the grid pretty small so that there would be enough detail captured.

select the cell or cells you want to color then go to Format->cells then click on Patterns and select your color of choice.

If you don't do anything else in between, you can then select other cells and do the cmd-y thing to repeat the formatting.

also to change the cell size - do a select all, then change the width or height of one of the cells in the selected area (by dragging the border in the bar on the top/side of the worksheet) and it will propogate to all cells in the selected area.